COINTELPRO 101
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
Release Date
May 7, 2010Runtime
56 minGenres
DocumentaryWritten by
Lincoln BergmanLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released
Cast
Ward Churchill
Self - Native American Activist/Author
Leonard Peltier
Self - Political Prisoner
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Stokely Carmichael
Self (archive footage)
Geronimo Pratt
Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney
Fred Hampton
Self (archive footage)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self (archive footage)Similar movies
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